persecutioncomplex | 30 // text, universal fourth wall (also hi mom) // for the good of us all etc.

[She has a lot to say to a few people, with all the time to think of when she last had friends. Just because most - if not all - of them don't exist anymore doesn't mean she has to leave them behind, doesn't mean that she doesn't have privileged information. The ones who are still alive deserve what she might have.]

Any members of the 78th class of Hope's Peak Academy, please respond. [She needs proof it's her, she remembers, and there is a short shot of her looking away from the camera, a shy stare and a half-hearted wave as a greeting.]

[chromie]

[Everyone's finally gone quiet, and she's tried hard to forget about it, nothing happened, and if she can't keep herself locked down maybe she shouldn't be at all surprised someone liked Syo enough to want to spend time with her. It only encourages her to think she's something she isn't, to believe she's her own person, and no matter what Syo's opinion on that may be it isn't her body to make trouble in. So she goes where no one's going to dare to intrude for fear of being charred by lightning or swallowed whole, where she doesn't even have to look at a camera for her unbreakable door.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

From:

decidedlyneutral

[ This is very strange. She doesn't recognize the IP, and as far as she can tell there is no sender. But it's certainly Touko. ]

This is Kirigiri. What's your status? Do you need assistance?

From:

persecutioncomplex

[It's someone who she knows can talk sense and isn't going to condescend to her, this is good? If it's really Kirigiri.]

Show me it's you first.

From:

decidedlyneutral

[ What? Does she not recognize the address? What's even going on here? She doesn't have many clues to work with. But she's checked to make sure the line is secure, that her background doesn't give anything away, and that her IP is virtually untraceable. ]

Are you compromised?

From:

persecutioncomplex

[Compromised? She doesn't even know where to start with that, it sounds like spy talk (maybe that was her title?), but it's Kirigiri. A few years older than she saw her last, but Touko herself looks older too so it might be normal. Is it another Barge, or back ho- in Japan? Is she still at school, or is it the same world Junko came from, where everyone is now free? All Kirigiri will see, though, when she turns the video on, is a Hope's Peak dormitory bedroom, by this time heavily modified.]

I don't think there's anything to compromise. Where are you?

From:

decidedlyneutral

You know I can't broadcast that information.

[ Or does she? There's something very unusual about all this. The room looks pristine, just as it was in the past, and Touko is wearing the sort of clothes that she doesn't wear anymore. But she needs more information to make an assessment, so she'll continue to act as though everything is normal. ]

What are you doing in the school dormitory? I thought it had all been destroyed.

From:

persecutioncomplex

[That question answers Touko's question immediately, and she looks away, for the first time realizing that she might have to break some unpleasant news.]

It's a copy. The last thing I remember of you or anyone was examining Ikusaba's body.

Enoshima told me everything that happened after that when she was here. Don't start asking questions, she's gone now. I already know what she did. [And good riddance, she sneers but doesn't say.]

From:

decidedlyneutral

[ Ikusaba's death was quite a while ago, but Touko looks to be the same age as she should be. It's troubling to hear that she and Junko spent time together, especially since Junko should be long dead. Is there another virus loose? It's possible that the room is a virtual reproduction similar to the New World Program, but as far as she knows only one such program exists. ]

Are there any holes in your memory?

From:

persecutioncomplex

None that haven´t been patched. That question you asked - "what did you do to my body?" - it made me wonder if there was something I was missing. There are psychics here, and one looked inside my head, repaired what there was.

From:

decidedlyneutral

[ Psychics. Who repaired her memories. But it seems unlikely that it's the New World Program. She doesn't have enough information. ]

Is there a reason you wanted to speak with me? [ One that she's willing to admit, anyway. ]

From:

persecutioncomplex

I wanted to know who else knew about Enoshima. Or where I'm supposed to be.

From:

moreincommon

Um, hello? Hello? Is there someone on this line? This is Mark Lilly, who is this?

From:

persecutioncomplex

[That's... not who she was looking for at all, and her eyes light up in recognition before she remembers that most people don't remember their time here. Instead, she turns away and makes a soft clicking sound behind her and a loud buzz heads right for the speakers. The ball of gray feathers that appears a second later recognizes something, at least, and Touko smiles up at it and nods to give it a cue.]

Say hi.

From:

moreincommon

Is that a bird? -- Oh my God, that's a bird. What kind is that?

Hello? Who's there?

Edited Date: 2014-08-21 12:30 am (UTC)

From:

persecutioncomplex

[The bird is pressing the point of her beak into the screen, convinced that what she sees is really there, and if she wants to try to drink its blood that's just affection and her training slipping.]

It's somebody. Who has a bird. [Explaining will take too long, and he'll try to make sense of it, make sense of her.]

From:

strangehistorian

[Chromie opens the door right away, in gnome form. One of her braids is lopsided; she had to shift quickly.]

Touko? Come in, what's wrong?

[The cave has gotten much bigger than it used to be, though the floor is still sand. What little furniture she owns is tucked off into a corner.]

From:

persecutioncomplex

[Dragon would have been more reassuring, a promise that she could set him aflame or scorch him with lightning, but gnome is her size and safer. She blurts out everything, giving up all delicacy.]]

Someone knows how to talk to her.

From:

strangehistorian

To Syo? Have they been forcing you to switch over? Who?

[Chromie steps aside and levitates the slightly sandy ottoman she owns over out of the corner.]

Here, come in.

From:

persecutioncomplex

[The sand can join the collection of dust and stains that have been collecting on her pants; Touko doesn't notice or care that it's getting on the ends of her braids as she slumps down against the ottoman and wraps herself up in a sulk.]

That man. The one you banned from the library. They're friends.